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3.
(
$ $ )
, 3859v) denotes “a constant or incessant wrangling”
( “through,”
, “beside,”
, “to wear out,” suggesting the attrition or wearing
effect of contention), 1 Tim. 6:5,
RV
, “wranglings,”
KJV
, “perverse disputings.” Some
mss. have the word
, in the opposite order of the prefixed prepositions. See
WRANGLING
.¶
4.
(
&
, 485) denotes “a gainsaying, contradiction” ( , “against,”
, “to speak”), Heb. 6:16 (
KJV
, “strife,”
RV
, “dispute,”); 7:7, “a gainsaying” (
RV
,
“dispute”;
KJV
, “contradiction”); 12:3 (
RV
, “gainsaying”;
KJV
, “contradiction”), Jude 11
(“gainsaying”). See
CONTRADICTION
, B.¶
5.
$
(
)
, 4804), from
$
, “with,”
, “to seek,” denotes “a
disputer,” 1 Cor. 1:20, where the reference is especially to a learned “disputant,” a
sophist.¶
B. Verbs.
1.
(
!
, 1256), akin to A No. 1, primarily signifies “to think
different things with oneself, to ponder”; then, with other persons, “to converse, argue,
dispute”; it is translated “to dispute” in Mark 9:34 (for v. 33, see No. 2), the
RV
and
KJV
“had disputed” is somewhat unsuitable here, for the delinquency was not that they had
wrangled, but that they had reasoned upon the subject at all; in Acts 17:17,
KJV
(
RV
,
“reasoned,” as in the
KJV
of 18:4, 19); in 19:8-9 (
RV
, “reasoning”); in 24:12, “disputing”;
in Jude 9, “disputed.” See
DISCOURSE
.
2.
(
&
, 1260), akin to A, No. 1, “to bring together different
reasons, to reckon them up, to reason, discuss,” in Mark 9:33 is translated “ye disputed
among yourselves,”
KJV
;
RV
, “were reasoning.” See
CAST
No. 15,
REASON
.
3.
$
(
!
, 4802), akin to A, No. 5, lit., “to seek or examine together,”
signifies “to discuss,” but is translated “to dispute” in Acts 6:9, and 9:29; elsewhere only
in Mark and Luke. See
INQUIRE
,
QUESTION
,
REASON
.
DISREPUTE
(
, 557), from
, “from,” and
, “to refute,” denotes
“censure, repudiation” (of something shown to be worthless), hence, “contempt,”
“disrepute,” Acts 19:27,
RV
, “(come into) disrepute,” for
KJV
, “(to be) set at nought.” It is
akin to
“to convict, refute” (not in the NT),
, “to convict,”
@
,
“rebuke,” and
, “reproof.” See
NOUGHT
.¶
For
DISSEMBLE
see
DISSIMULATION
DISSENSION
(
1
, 4714), akin to
, “to stand,” denotes (a) “a standing, stability,”
Heb. 9:8, “(while as the first tabernacle) is yet standing”; (b) “an insurrection, uproar,”
v Variant spellings of forms of other words not listed in
Strong’s
are indicated with a “v”
following the number (for instance,
, a variant of
, is 1790v).